Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary artthe need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universeproved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines. Concentrationary Art presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrols key essays on the subject, as well as the first book-length study of how we might situate and elaborate his concept of a Lazarean aesthetic in cultural theory, literature, cinema, music and contemporary art.
Recenzijas
The volume is a true labour of love, makes for fascinating reading, and at last offers us Cayrol in English translationThe articles take us on a fascinating journey in which Cayrols idea of the concentrationary and the figure of Lazarus are explored as theories with their own historiesThese analyses across dierent artistic forms and historical periods demonstrate how fertile Cayrols ideas were. Modern Language Review
This is a politically urgent volume and an excellent resource for anyone studying the cultural or representational legacies of the concentration camp as both event and form, its (post)traumatic manifestations or memory in the contemporary world. Textual Practice
Concentrationary Art is invariably intellectually exhilarating to read, and is hard to put down. It puts forward a new and cogent aesthetic theory in its analysis not only of the wartime concentrationary, but also of the role of the survivor in a post-war world where traces of the same phenomena persist unseen in the everyday. Sue Vice, University of Sheffield
This is an authoritative, clear, and insightful book. The contributions to this excellent volume offer a novel take on the concentrationary and provide a wider understanding of post-Holocaust art. Kathryn Robson, Newcastle University
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Lazarus and the Modern World
Max Silverman
PART I: LAZARUS AMONG US
Jean Cayrol
Lazarean Dreams
Lazarean Literature
PART II: SITUATING CAYROLS LAZAREAN
Chapter
1. Lazarean Writing in Post-war France
Patrick ffrench
Chapter
2. The Perpetual Anxiety of Lazarus: The Gaze, the Tomb, and the
Body in the Shroud
Griselda Pollock
PART III: READING WITH THE LAZAREAN
Chapter
3. Concentrationary Art and the Reading of Everyday Life: (In)human
Spaces in Chantal Akermans Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080
Bruxelles (1975)
Max Silverman
Chapter
4. Cinematic Work as Concentrationary Art in Laurent Cantets
Ressources Humaines (1999)
Matthew John
Chapter
5. After Haunting: A Conceptualization of the Lazarean Image
Benjamin Hannavy Cousen
Chapter
6. Lazarean Sound: The Autonomy of the Auditory from Hanns Eisler
(Nuit et Brouillard, 1955) to Susan Philipsz (Night and Fog, 2016)
Griselda Pollock
Concluding Remarks
Griselda Pollock
Index
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History at the University of Leeds. Her many publications include After-Affects/After-Images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2012) and Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (2018). She co-edited Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (2012).
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